Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death after Sunset. In the unlighted, unpoliced locations and shantytowns, the native criminals who prey on the whites have their hideouts. They prey on the blacks as well. The respectable, hardworking majority are utterly at the mercy of the gangsters (the most notorious gang calls itself "the Russians"). No one dares go out at night. Black homes, like white homes, are barricaded. At dusk, crime begins. People are murdered in the streets, knifed, "chopped" with axes. Clothing is taken from the victims and the bodies are left for the night-soil removers to find. Though most black gangsters now carry...
...bought the hapless Browns, a pointed line was added to the score cards of their Sportsman's Park rivals: ''The Cardinals, a dignified St. Louis Institution." The note was good for a few tired jeers from fans who remembered the Cards' rowdy old Gas House Gang. But it was not the kind of hint to faze Showman Bill Veeck, who operates on the theory that baseball can be the greatest show on earth...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...always the leader." What bothered his teachers more than the way he flunked courses was such extracurricular activity as yelling obscenities from the auditorium balcony, or commandeering textbooks from other pupils and selling them back for two bits apiece, "way below wholesale cost," as one of the old gang puts it. Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation. As Mario tells the story, it was because he socked a teacher for slurring...
...acres according to the quality of the soil) big enough to support a family comfortably. No buyer may have water for more than one unit. If Congress continues this policy, * the bureau hopes to see the whole area divided into prosperous one-family farms, with none of the gang-worked "factories-in-the-field" so conspicuous in other irrigated parts of the West...